The Ambler Gazette 18981215

              the ambler gazei vol xvii.no l ambler pa december 15 1hhh norristown letter presi fitment to a circle of friends in no manner distinguishes him frwn n nultot refon.ht thrf c i.iimf sl.li shut \ ctci inai i an or i lent isl or cow doctor nmn.fmt t i c 	 if s 	 r.,.1 ™« il.troilniclhehev mr lied er us our inost eloi|iient 1111111-1,1 even l kiibiuii a vnlimhlr srhnnl klrectnr ,„„, );„,,„ s 1 1 |,,, js ., preacher hlit in c'tn-ltrnhmn townnhlp when i sav i'r itccber ladies i 11 < 1 norristown her 12 gentlemen it conveys no imprcs-ion that the reform s if 1 ;!<¦ snn^eis as to the personal ,. v o ballot abomination whose doctor and gives no cfoe to hii calling i think australian opinions i liend the tend rlo true remedy t hf it criticismi i the blanket iheel on which not compre they confine fonn of the wn note our minks [ go down tip the foundation of the recurred systt m we want nil the lawi repealed relating to nomina tion papers and the right to vote us of old we want nil the trusli repealed and give every man a right to be a can didafe for office and every other mas a right to vote fur him we want no court in dauphin cotmty lo decide whether or noi we ran place matz'i 01 1 ctik ins name in the ballot box we wiini ti 	 ill law ao that when a man in tiic polls be ran vote for whom he may please nominated or not aimiisii the wholi cursed system of nomination papers | 1 • t each man vote his own ticket made ni to roll him self with no other names on it than tlic names of those for whom he desired to vote tli is is the only kcret ballot the only iiiill.it that becomes an ameri can freeman we have simply t go back tn the old secret single ballot of common sense used by our fathers and ourselves down to the days of the aus tralian craze nothing was plainer or mure satisfactory than that old law which wrmit ted every voter to preparu the tickets he intended to vote tie tliem together with a string and walk to the polls and vote then such tn elector was a freeman and felt like an american citizen us be deposited his secret hallot prepared by himself to mil himself unfreighted with 40 name be did not vote for and yet might be cheated by b little scratch of a pen or pencil into voting foi nolens volena by the present bystem under whi<ii when he exercises iiis right to make his mark he feels like a fool we had three little side shows of considerable interest t 	 ir people this december court time and the cold weather has been delightful to those who enjoy good health the boy phe nomenon now a full-grown man of somewhat stalwart proportions per formed on several of our citizens in music hall on wednesday evening and i was present he cured josiah christ man and john meredith of rheuma tism and some id lady of deaf ness and each in a very few minutes his pro cess is the excitement of animal ma netism ele differs from the mesrner ints und hypnotists in thu thai wbili hen perform by proceeiiing with ass i s i_f the handx towards and ovci the l^i.v aim ironou lionc of tne uniiii thin operator stands behind the atefl in a chair anil nibs his - violently over the n|i of the head of the patient and backwards and downwards along the spinal coiiumii and legs or arms or darin afflicted the men cured are well-known citizens say bctwi li li ami 70 years of age or over there is certainly no fraud in the feat urea of the operation1 yet it may lie as in all things in human nature a food medicine sleep clothing ami rest it may have to lie renewed at staled in tervals there was an immense crowd in the hall anil all were orderly anil in tensely interested ami all convinced the lecturer wiio accompanied the per former explained that there wen cer tain degrees of afflictions that were past the curative power of their system as total blindness and death of the optic nerve and the same with death in the ear the sportsmen of lower providence and korriton townships accompanied by many friends from radnor merion valley forge ami phoenixville gave us a f'ix chase on thursday that attracted a large number of people to jefferson ville hotel where the foxes were turned loose at '_' o'clock we were invited to the fuller i at 11.30 and we went but two hours were fooled away with the gathering of the clans and eating lunch jt was a cold day the fox was a good natured little fellow red and cute anil when turned out of his box took it nithe coollv anil moved off with a sul len mein.us if lie considered it a shah by trick to he turned out in a bleak december wind for no other purpose than to hi hunted down by men who ought to he engaged in a more phllun ainl he strolled norristown to stony from the davs when there stooil up in the council a pharisee named ofimhllel a doctor of the law as recited in the fifth chapter of acts down tn the 1(1(1 on . ling of the teachers institute men and women have been stealing each other's titles and garments not only of titles bill of clothing and designations of sex the ductless now jy called i'r 1 1 1111 s nnd if she he spoken of in the third person in her absence the person spoken to would have the right to infer and i-11 record i.hat dr jones was a re markable man in his profession judg ing from accounts when lo and bell nidi i'r lone is only a modest little woman ami a ili'lmlante at that another freak is in applying the word doctor improperly a doctor in a learned teacher from the latin word doeci 10 teach but in america it is universally applied to a physician one whose occupation is to cure diseases in the human family ami the family of domestic animals now minister is also a word of very extensive applica tion hut ever since moses rose up and his minister loshua " it has been held to designate a sacred office for says holy writ i will sanctify also both aaron and his son to minister to me in the priest's office yet minister is also a delegate ambassador a represen tative of a sovereign or government hut christ is called a minister of the sanctuary there is no higher title than teacher profenor is a word of more limited and doubtful signification for many profess that they know god but in works they deny linn a professor particularly is one who makes public avowal of his belief in the scriptures and his faith in christ and thus unites himself to the visible church in a secondary sense a professor is one who teaches any science or branch of learning but specifically an officer in a college or university who devotes his life to instruction in a spe cially our teachers are instructors of youth tutors in every branch required to he taught in the schools selected i'r 	 among our own citizens and qual ified for the positions they till but thev are not professois ami are surely called professors by ignorant apes and snobs who know no better and who if they had to rewrite tin scriptures would fill ami defile the sacred page w 1th profe in paul ind doctor < ihrist the grand opera house for a plain hull a grand concert for 11 soiree and "¦ it""ii ti1 r'1''-1 fl ' " er arc nil ie nitcome of tl . is si illed age of sty i 	 id broad brimmed hat and high'fi .;'.,. is foi women who wear lulls and for iui 11 who wear women's head drees and silly trills with hair parted in the middle the common school law authorizes directors to appoint teach ers of common schools,1 and fixes their salaries no professors are author ized the old term in use in 1n4i to 1s.")o and i don't know bow many vcars anterior to the last half of the ceutury of calling school teachers selnm masters has gone out of use for the word mas ter implies man and masculine gender and now the woman or the feminine gender predominates in the schoo room speaking of sohools reminds me thin our old friend thomas williams ol cheltenham one of the most earnest and efficient of the conscientious school directors of this county anil president of the directors association is prepar ing a bill to present to the next legisla ture that ought to have been enacted doctor turns detective lilrvpn fntrr storpn nl kort wnahlni <¦" nml mill a « iiv witlt f nn«tfff>rhlilf i'm liortv l»r t i m>vir < upline one l lii.l ii hi hit ll i fn.tlrc imtins charles i btoot ma a vltrmr to v,r ristown on monday last herbert p hlllfngham of phtktdel phia was looking up old ncn;t)alntanrea here on hatnrday win blair purchased ¦ fine bar honw a party of thieves made a full ni|?lif "- at the wm 1'enn hflgaar on saturday lt willi work at fort washington last thnmriaj night ami friday morning when they gained entrance to the store of ml atkinson on summit avenue at that place and also of i'rcderick ihiu'iiiil h on the bethlehem pike mi arit the station at the former place entrance ii i ned to the more room hy 1 through a shutter md lifting the it seems that the men did lint rein in vctv long as they failed lo remove any of the goods however ti v rndfl mud ctv g y of the goods however tin ¦ v away wilh the keys to the store it is likely from there they went to tin lanre general store of prederick iiuh'nal'le which they entered by i ¦ moving a section of glaw in the front door and lifting the holts here thoj helped themselves removing ahout wotth of goods soeiiil some shirts aid trousers they fancied thev made an e change of doth ing leaving their olg garmentg however they overlooked the cull's of a shirt of rather loud pal tern which they put on they took keys tobacco largo lamp shirts un derwear jewelry etc as soon as the robbery was discover ed dr t i conovor who is the physi cian iii mr huff nagle's family went , > philadelphia on the i o4 train to re port the robbery to the philadelphia police at the beading terminal 1 1 1 - ¦ doctor sow a colored man standing b the news stand ami his suspicion was at once aroused bv the negro's loud in shirt front the man of medicine carried the cuffs which matched the stolen shirt and these he pr 	 ptlr last william says some nf those who have trollei s may find i heinsel ves ill the rear miss mann kill of fort washington and miss laura stout of flourtown were visitor lo our town on sunday the guests of miss idith blair it is rum re i that john l.nnlach of philadelphia will make application for bolt.o l bottler's license at the hoiiso now oc cupied hy r.s-hr bra it is not likely he will he successful mrs wm paul of philadelphia ac companied by her son hurry spent monday here ' wilh mr and mrs wm i'oole and family the baptist and method lit churches of thi town are making preparations for their christ mas eiilertaiiimeiits a i aiinan and jacob selmeipp our enterprising grocers weir visited by thieves on wednesday night last in aiman's store they made their en trance by in ring holes through the shut ters and unfastening the holt two gold walchos 3.50 in money cigars c:ikes and cider were stolen in jacob schneipp's store they cut out u large blass ill the hay window to make their entrance to the store bat being receiv ei by two la rge dogs thev were frighten fed away without securing anything for their troubli (. miss angnsla liavior of this place entertained a very social party of friends at her home on moudav " last between the music recitations and games indulged in it is safe to siiv the dav was one which will long he remember ed by all present anion the ambler gazette a lift r of 11 lbn|»pr ihtrlng tt i:«i«t<ii where whm y p g were miss lilian l'ierci ,, , p , . ' ¦ ¦- , bj 1...i-t.1 j.i.i i hi l i , >,| pulled from his poekcts and compared detrieh mr joseph berrv miss plei them with the stranger's shirt they r»nt hinder miss sadie veal a matched exactly and the doctor called charles xeal mies florence i tew 111 special policeman () rara who is em : mr charles ilavmr lose present mr wm ms mr and eman ti rara who ih em-mr charles rnvior . oyc.l at the terminal the colored j the entertnininent at theoreiand bap man was soon on his way to ( hief mill tift church on tuesday last given by the er s office in the detective bureau ' y,,ung people's society of the fourth . the chief went through the rtrnnprcr'fi baptist church of philadelphia was a pockets and found some small articles pronounced success the entertainment which the doctor identified as tin pro 1 consisted of duets recitntii perty taken from the store the prisoner was arraigned before magistrate south and gave the name of win v 	 1 lie was committed to prison without bail the name lie pave proved an alias as ho was known about kdgellill 119 jam ; jackson about a year ago it is alien ed he robed 1 leu k i ntown man ofajv a warrant v:s sworn out hut he avri id capture by laving no regular tin friday afternoon a warrant nn i r i • i swoi'll ollj llelol^.i list le 1 i l t | ambler for t fie and also a searc of sydney appearance ol in warrant for iiir h a«««ubv ji i\«\.tt~f j ' ' 1 1 1 1 1 i ' ' ' r - , th't1 dialogues ami musical imitations which ere well rendered by every one who nrlicipateil a duet by mrs algec ad mrs chute elicited much applause 3(1 was greatly appreciated by the idience the same can he snid of the stations by mr orksford polos by liss fleishman were timely and inter ing mr montgomery performed tie charming musical iinii.it ions on banjo violin and guitar which ic received with great applause ins imitations of the moon puuip 1 ll id iauiriit't ami itppliui.-e dialogue the scheme that failt nml iiv whom konmlfil on this lice is i8w the amhli r • ia/ette commence its 17th volume upon such an occasion it is becoming that the event be properly noticed and reference made to it past hirtory newspaper like most have their birth i bei infancy their pi rlod <¦( growth followed hy msltoritv and the lives i if many journals i?o longer than the ll»es of men previous to the establishment of the liii/clle ambler was a small village hint had been built up about the rail road station a point of small local trade and distribution of goods for the surrounding agricultural region no giciii industrial establishment had come i draw population seeking employ mi in and causing the rapid extension of hie town to the size which we have si en in recent years the local news paper needs of the town and neighbor hood were supplied mainly by two jour nals published elsewhere these were the north wales record and the llat boro spirit with some help from the norristown papers with no disparage ment i if their excellence as n wspapers they uere unable to niei't the needs of this locality as the town of ambler it self hi came a much larger centre of business and population in this age of many newspapers it was inevitable that sooner or later a local paper would be estahl ished here there were one or two furtive and unsuccessful attempt made to establish a paper during the summer of 1882 by parties whose names are now forgotten these were quite short-lived hater in the year joseph linrbicre along with his fat her-indaw joseph i.eavitl open ed an office in fort washington and commenced publishing a paper under thetille of the i'ort washington times barbiere was the editor and l.cavilt the business manager they had ar ranged with mr david knine who then as now conducted the lumber and coal yanl to lease a large room on the third floor of his building and had moved some machinery and other fix tures therein ready for the business the paper was issued only two weeks at fort washington being printed else where but forwarded to the subscribers from the former place as a local publi cation they announced the removal of the plant to ambler because this was the larger and most promising place the office was located in i pail •!' the feed building ol the 1 watson craft property then a small place of irni possessed by joseph sin^k end of the pail need in t he and t"~nmeil a new apppflrncp iii torlcal sketches u<re introduced and after an time its editorials were rend at a distanct and quoted elsewhere it was an uphill struggle at llrsl the i nice for nearly three years was in ihe ira tiding now owned by thomas bit ting rsq main street the compos ing mom was in fin rj win the imsiness office and editorial - turn were on the iir-i root » hei innv a tailor s shop the removal to the presenl location was made in october 1888 win n mr mining hud bongnl the building after this the clrcalat ion nf the ' itte rapidly inn . . i i did also i lie population of the town of amwer this increnred clrcnlatinu brovshl morn advert isnmeiits and wort i jobbing depart r mil t ti.c v hole i visibly bei-iime more propporong the paper was enlarged to a blanket shei t and a new press facilitated its r.-i id printing ri cent events are more familiar to the reader and n ed not be told in de tail \ great ralamlty was impending early on sunday morning tho 20th of september 1800 a bre broke oat in the ha si nicnl and before il could be cbi eke destroyed i he whole bnild ing inflicting a loss of 810,000 of which amount there was - 7*>00 covered by in i i a nee i ndismavi d by ibis great 1i:i mjille lr thomas immediately made arrange ments for the cr i k 	 r ¦¦ much more expensive and commodi ¦: striid are ir imsiness block guch - we see todny this was completed afti r a few months l»iirin tk'1 time r !| 	 •'¦. was tempomriiv rera \ - . to the second atory of the niblock building on main si reel ambler the paper being printed m the press of the lansdale reporter from the time of the bre until the mid dle of hcci min r m » lit n the i room of the new building was complet ed for occupancv noi a single i sue fitul been missed by reason of the gr at catastrophe nd the work of the paper had progressed as previous to the ore uninterrupted .. 	 uorabii uuase warming to the newspaper fraternity of bucks and montgomery counties was given in honor of tho new structure in march 1897 the details of which were told in our local culnnm ¦ of that time 1 luring that year a change in the form ol the paper was made from a blanket sheet the paper wa eet to the nea n neat qaarto form that it t hear at present it remains only to leil of an import ant change of ownership which took place feb l-l 1808 mr had long been ambitious of a wider and different field of newspaper work t hat of a daily paper so after conducting ' years und of a daily the "•< iuisetto c ing it a for over i i where w is the most interesting fcalu re of the e&ting the hoard j.hropic uiuvennnt a'onk towards noi creek where he wan f alight by a man niimefi iarber from koyersford the only thing animating about the chase ih the sight of the 100 hounds us they are turned loose a half hour after the start of the fox on her trail this is jit'tnre«que ami deliflhted id h u'-ii the boys hi b it my grand y k never seen the like before it was an old familiar sight to uit but never i iff on enjoyed l)y me on this hide of the sclmylkill in former vears fox chases anil fox hunting were confined to the cheater valley side of the schuylkill a fair was held by ht john's prot mtant episcopal church of norristown in the irnmeiihe hall in the new market house on dekalh street the new min later mr planer was in attendance and v h introduced to our people rev mr gibson who has been the rector of st john • since 1872 is now retired mi u comfortable salary and with an unimpeachable und enviable record the most popular man who lias filled that pulpit since the regime of thai classic gentleman the reverend nuthan stem nothing menu to derogate from the dignity of the clergyman so much to my mind us to cull him doctor hence i never do it hut everything i tilt cd now llamhoyant and altivcrous the barber shop is now tonsorial par loit the montgomery mouse hotel montgomery tne school teacher pi-u or a writing school a college ami un apothecary shop pharmacy fountain and pa our old substantial druggist win stabler calls his wholesale ami retail drug stow by the k°<"i old name stuhlei ' a drug store im<l coatereand u few other do the same ; hut gpothl hu|i has disappcaieil from evciy sign hoard cullitlg tt minister of the goflpel a doctoi in i public introduction or pri law long ago school directors in every township hoard of health with power to appoint a reputable physician to assist in tin abatement of nuisances and noisi 	 places where diseases are bred and for the prevention of contagious disease among children and families that pa tronize the public schools the stati hoard of health created by the act ol june 3 1885 can institute sanitary inspections of public institutions oi placet throughout the state " and they have an emergency fund of 0,000 at their own command to he used as occa sion may require in the suppression of epidemics prevention of protection otf human life diseases and in limes of disease or disaster beyond the relief of individual and organized chanty with special provisions for cities of the first and second classes boroughs are auth orized hy law to regulate nuisances noxious nnd dangerous trades accumu lations of manure and prohibit the keeping of hogs within the borough limits prohibit interments and may regulate the general health ; but there is no law giving power to any organiza tion in the townships to regulate the health and pi oil ibit nuisances in the school districts of the several townships of a county in the commonwealth therefore for the common weal friend thomas williams will propose ii most wholesome and salutary jaw to protect the citizens of school districts outside of boroughs and cities cheltenham has no little pocket boroughs such as have sprung up nil over the eountv but it ih a little republic in itself serene and noble us the ancient republic at the foot of the pyrenees between franco and spain called andorra whifih has existed for 1000 yearn tim proposition is to grant to school director this sanitary power to oversee ihe health of their respective township and preserve and prelect it from taint of nulsan <• and loathsome disease this additional power can be constitu tionally conferred just as the duty of fence viewers was conferred upon town hip auditors in addition to their prim 1 functions powers have been con femd upon courts of law tn grunt li for inn and make appointments il in |.. cio i i if prisons and in main not directly delegated to them natty as judicial ollict i the ie\t if tin i bill will be laid before tin next legislature and i ask for it liulu'incnl und prompt action of out members of ihe general awfuihly old 1'klkmi yy hill of edge hill jackson was reported to liav ¦ left ins evening knch participant liianifestei goods constable stev us want to phila n great dexterity in the occasion of its delphia and brought tachion up and performance officers sweeny and hamilton searched the premises for stolen goods thev recovered many articles finding n gold watch one of the two supposed to have iv ¦ ¦) stolen from ( leorge a i man's store at ireland on wednesday night ; the lamp which jackson had presented to mrs hill as a christinas present and other things these were brought to ambler the prisoner was confined in the amb ler jail over night ami given a hearing saturday morning mrs ilill was present and told her story saying she was not up friday ' tlie n»r.h v ' . iie wiiicli with ail uhi i as comfortable ation ¦ 1 1 sheet ing it a - tie pi , , bed it to 1 m i i:iy « 	 l the prei i 3 fie of tl the being prink ll g cal pnges rimirttiwn in tuesday night of last week thieves broke open william schatl'er"s corn cril and stole about 20 bushels of corn and also two barrels of cibbagii which hud been buried in the garden there is no clue k mecloskey has purchased a new coal wagon ('. 1 marnier was tin builder miss siiarh mat spent sunday in tin city visiting friends mr and airs wm dletterich from the city spent sunday here visiting mr dietterich's brother rot 1 e dietterich the churches and sunday t-chools in this vicinity are preparing their christ mas exercises mrs henry kerper spent saturday at noi i istown visiting friends mr and mrs w s kerper and mr kson was then brought in from the ! and mrs j ii mat spent sunday lock-up and confirmed her statement afternoon ami evening at hooverton thai he reached her house between s visiting mr wm hoover and 1 o'clock friday morning hill was j 1 dawson yeakle has placed the also given a hearing his family and i new pipes at the flourtown road and morning between s and !) o'clock when jackson came to her house her hus band had gotten up early cooked his breakfait and gone off to work jack son represented that lie had bought the gonds as christmas presents to his rela tives in virginia with whom he expect ed to spend the holidays she did not know the goods wen stolen and shv appeared to tell a straight story lacks neighbors testilied to his general gi md ; h'thlehem j ike which is a great im 1 not rind j provement james ivl'ugh has moved from his conduct and the just ice sufficient evidence to implicate him jackson was committed to the county jail judge bitting holds many of the stol en goods and pawn tickets at his office awaiting identification it is probable that jackson hud accomplices as he could not alone have removed all the stolen goods a real live black bear has become a resident of our village a few weeks ago hiram mccool proprietor of the hotel went on a gunning trip to carbon county he purchsikptl bruno and hud hini brought hero he now has him chained to an apple tree in his orchard where he receives frequent visits from the children to many of whom he is a great curiosity it being their first op portunity to see a wild animal george tavlor a colored muii in the employ of hon jason sexton met with a painful accident on monday he was delivering a load of hay and when near kort washington the horses be came frightened at the curs and threw tavlor off breaking his urm william shelve has been visiting friends in new jersey mrs james f walter is spending a few days in philadelphia with her daughter mrs herbert morris adam liodemick wife and daughter llobeila of janctowii were visiting re tit i ves here on wednesday william morton has purchased the ik-acre ut belonging to elisabeth torn it situated on the hethlchem pike op losite mr murton's residence mis 1*111 imm will dispose of her personal pro perty ut public sale shortly miuiv people « iini h drink ft at imkiii ll spoils ilicir bleep you can lriuk graiu-0 when you please mid bleep iui it op km i min o it in>l miiiiiihilc 11 iiiiuiuii es.cln . i vet it looks and tu.su-w like .¦ koi uei i.m perauiu youu ile aud ehlldreu i tht perfect drink llu.lc llum pure gruillt titt u 1'u our grooei ti rullu lu shoemaker shop into george lower's house oa wissahickon drive mrs m !•'. boheetis and daughter lulu spent saturday ut norristown viwiting the former's mother in-law justin mecurthev who spent several days in chicago last week returned home on saturday evening considerable rivalry exists in ilen side among the several aspirants to the post of supreme newsboy samuel laska albert laska hurry bach hal vh 1'iu-k nun and young m qoldrich each ply their trade at the station every even intc it is a signilicant fact that al though so much rivalry exists among them they carry lint one paper the evening bulletin robert suhewing still lias undisputed control of t lie morn ing imiiert hit route coven glenslde and kdgd mill there is no feur of his being intefcn-ril with mr and mrs j lienton 1 louver en tertained the bride and groom kev.and mrs a f von tobel one even ing re cently ut their home on mt carinel avenue the skuting granted the young blood last friday and saturday was eagerly taken advantage of young < leorge hoist took it the wrong way however the ice and he parted company on smith's lake last friday afternoon and he fell in it was nothing more than a slight ducking hut il is of mine than passing moment because of its i iring 1 he bret of the season the fourth annual bazaar of the tilen side m iv church uas held last friday and saturday evenings in ulensiile hull the saturday evening session was vuy well attended the hall being crowdtta 4 great deal of fair good ice cream candy fancy j_'oods etc changed hands that evening a considerable profit was no doubt realised the klondike a ng favorite in the way of penuy und nickle catching drew in a great deal of mouey no one cm nay that the proverbial church fail is d ing out il it is as vigorous us it c . was a small one half ed elsewhere and struck oil al a.iibicr the leayitt family were orignuily from kosi.in,'iiid removed to tennessee they came to sew britain town-hip bucks counfor in 1851 living on iron hill barbiere was a native tennes sean a handsome man of splendid phvslque of winning manners of ex cellent character of courteous address ami a public speaker when the civil war bn ike out he left new britain went smith and became a colonel in tin time b for a was captured and wa term in a niilitiirv wnor the fon man in the ••¦¦"' ¦¦¦ ¦¦ an interest in the d r company being now bus i nrinnatter of the daily ami weekly i u'lligcnecr of that place modesty forbids any claims in the unanaaement of the gazette sinci acquirement by in pres n owner tho i i pi t may speak f '.. . 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' apoi tent and interesting improvement lias been adopted this is the introduction of a thome typesetting machine that marvel of mechanical inventions that so greatly lessens the 1>or and expense of placing the type in order for tin press other mechanical changes ar in contemplation and course of nan confederate army in the uwe of btrl,ction>which i f . i . » i i i i % * t i oh prison at h he i facility of the papi n p chicago after the close of the war went to europe living some years id paris and then returned to america strange to say in the later years of his life lie became an ardent republican and along with general patrick stump largs liokl ed the state of virginia in behalf of the election of benjamin harrison in campaign of isss lie died poor a few years later in philadelphia he was a poor financier and not a few per sons losjt money by him during his ca reer not seeing success in the way of his venture barbiere relinquished the infant newspaper ami it was purchased bylrwins weber in december 1882 who gave it the name of ia/.ette just hi years ago weber was the son of jacob wi'iiit of north wales and was a graduate of the record otlice at that place the liles of the paper hear his name for the succeeding year when he sold to horace i 1 likens coming from tlitt same town and th same otlice he wa the son of knos m lukens recently deceased weber became post master of north wales in july 1888 a place he held till march 1896 both lukens und weber art now employed as printers in philadelphia i.ukchs kept the paper two years or till dec ember ikk an inspection of the files of the iazette during the tirnt tliree years of its history shows its inferiori ty as compared with what it has since become there were ciiluimis of patent plate mutter the size of the paper was much smaller having only 24 columns the aim unit of local matter was very much lew than now as well us the cor respondence there were no historical skt'tchch and its editorial treatment of current tonics was as meagre us its circulation uut another publisher was about to take tho holm arthur ic thomas had for home time been associated with dr ii k andrews in the publication of the l.aiirtlalo reporter ami hud sold out his interest to his partner mr thomas luring the summer of 1bu went daily to noirimtown where he vus employed is an editor mi the daily register juittlngj that he cast nbout for another ind an independent held at journalism the lia/.ette had mil been sn ful aud was for sale for u small amount i money mr thomas aeiaed his op poitunity and bought it ut tl bargain it was not long befon it was evident that the right man bail taken | lion who was eminently adapted to the onducting of a local newspaper kntei vising energetic and untiring in lib i the new publisher began build ing uj the sickly plant correspondents were placed at all the vantage points in the surrounding country wblie the news if unbu'r l.ansdale anil li'nk in!;iw n u.i gathetctl by himself i'late luutttil newly lixcardcil the paper en iv and acceptably rover i be it has been designed to fill the gassette hi deserved i<l wan tl.e favor of the public in tlu wars ol the past we hone to emit i'nie and im l'ove upon good features hi die iiitnre :¦ i that in tin years t come it uill th l i serve tne public bcuvi uiitj i u more complete newspaper owing to an increasing patronage and an c circulation nlnuht . fine skating on the crefimefv jont3 saturday was paj uny ua-i oo was paid for the milk furnished for i ivember two young men broke through tho ice at the trolley park on sunday but succeeded in getting out again ' the water was about waist deep where i broke through the creamery directors are negotlat ing for a cold storage refrigerator a ma chine for grinding cottage cheese will be nut in joseph reed who is putting up it new bouse ut lancastervlile attempted to feed his horse from u well bucket the handle in some manner fell on the horse's head causing him to run uff he run as far as williamson's store at cold point where lie came into colli sion with a hay w , '.!:-.- ii wagon he was attached to a mr.smith of plymouth has moved into the bouse vacated hy wr natter who moved to l'lourtown hill christmas trees have been passing through the town iii unusual numbers this with other siyns t tints towards ii buay wide-awake eason a ui'rn of re turning prosperity mr frank dimly h house is having the finishing touches put upon it it will be occupied by jan i mr christian 1'nniz ha accepted the j it i t i « 1 1 1 of sexton of the carmel pres byterian church mr fran a h:id , igned this post about a year mr alvln i pi ' ' * ' ' 	 paid this town a visit la*t sunday evening we are pleuhed iii note i he ivtw p ivtw which has verged iii favor of the peti tion to our representative mr wan requesting his influence in fuvorof tht icilis bill a coniinimic't i-im forward ad to ii w anger haa met with hi ogmition for he id all in his power to prorao^h the cause of temperance in this particular line promoters ol the mo in nl in ihis vicinity are highly gratin il i|lt ception being accorded their i ward trotter price ii a eat tut ui pain «:> mil t at his farm near imblej